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“The phonology of the Lahu (Muhsur) language.” Report to the National Research Council of Thailand, Bangkok. Mimeographed. Unpublished 37 pp. MS.
A Grammar of the Lahu Language. Unpublished dissertation, University of California, Berkeley. Obtainable through University Microfilms (Ann Arbor, Michigan), Order No. 67-11648. 697 pp.
Review of Robbins Burling, Proto-Lolo-Burmese. Language 44.4, 879-97.
1969a]
“Lahu and Proto-Lolo-Burmese.” Occasional Papers of the
Wolfenden Society on Tibeto-Burman Linguistics, Vol. I,
117-221. Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Reviews:
Haudricourt, André-Georges. 1970. Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris 65.2, 253-4.
Jones, R.B. 1970. Journal of Asian Studies 30.1, 230-1.
1969b]
“Verb concatenation in Lahu: the syntax and semantics of 'simple'
juxtaposition.” Acta Linguistica Hafniensia (Copenhagen)
12.1, 69-120.
1969c]
“Lahu bilingual humor.” Acta Linguistica Hafniensia
(Copenhagen) 12.2, 171-206.
1969d]
Review of Paul Lewis, Akha-English Dictionary. Journal of
Asian Studies 28.3, 644-5.
1969e]
Review of Thomas Sebeok, ed., Current Trends in Linguistics II:
Linguistics in East Asia and Southeast Asia. Journal of
Asian Studies 28.4, 835-7.
1970a]
“Glottal dissimilation and the Lahu high-rising tone: a tonogenetic
case-study.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 90.1,
pp. 13-44.
1970b]
Review of Norman A. Mundhenk, Auxiliary Verbs in Myang of
Northern Thailand. Journal of Asian Studies 29.2, 492-3.
1970c]
“Note on the orthography of Lahu.” In Anthony R. Walker, Red
Lahu Village Society and Economy in North Thailand, Vol. I, pp.
xxxiii-xxxv.
“The tonal split in Loloish checked syllables.” Occasional Papers of the Wolfenden Society on Tibeto-Burman Linguistics, Vol. II. 44 pp. Urbana, Illinois.
Reviewed by Kun Chang in Journal of Asian Studies 31.4, p. 988 (1972).
1972a]
The Loloish Tonal Split Revisited. Research Monograph No. 7,
Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies, University of
California, Berkeley. 88 pp.
Reviews:
Coblin, W. South. 1974. Journal of the American Oriental Society94.4, 522-4.
Haudricourt, André-Georges. 1973. Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris 68.2, 495.
Sedláček, Kamil. 1975. Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländischen Gesellschaft125.1, 227-8.
Sprigg, R.K. 1974. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies(London) 37.1, 259-62.
1972b]
“Tangkhul Naga and comparative Tibeto-Burman.” Tonan Azia Kenkyu
[Southeast Asian Studies](Kyoto) 10.2, 1-13.
1972c]
“Lahu nominalization, relativization, and genitivization.” In John
Kimball, ed., Syntax and Semantics, Volume I, pp. 237-57.
Studies in Language Series. Seminar Press, New York.
Reviewed by Edward H. Bendix in American Anthropologist 77.4, p. 957.
1972d]
Review of Radoslav Katicić, A Contribution to the General
Theory of Comparative Linguistics. American Anthropologist
74.1-2, 96.
1972e]
Review of D.N. Shankara Bhat, Tankhur Naga Vocabulary.
Language 48.2, 476-9.
1972f]
Contributing editor of Paul K. Benedict, Sino-Tibetan: a
Conspectus. Cambridge University Press.
Reviewed by Nicholas C. BODMAN, Kun CHANG, CHOU Fa-kao, W. South COBLIN, Philip DENWOOD, Søren EGEROD, A.G. HAUDRICOURT, Helmut HOFFMAN, F.K. LEHMAN, Roy Andrew MILLER, Gilbert ROY, Kamil SEDLACEK, Walter SIMON, and R.K. SPRIGG.
1973a]
The Grammar of Lahu. University of California Publications
in Linguistics, No. 75. University of California Press, Berkeley,
Los Angeles, London. li + 673 pp., map, photographs, 57 figures,
indexes, bibliography. Reprinted 1982.
Reviews:
De Lancey, Scott. 1988. Language 64.1, 213-4.
Denlinger, Paul B. 1979. “Grammatical comparison in Sino-Tibetan: a review article of James A. Matisoff, The Grammar of Lahu.” Monumenta Serica 33, 300-308.
Haudricourt, André-Georges. 1974. Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris 69.2, 373.
Lehman, F.K. 1978. Journal of the American Oriental Society 98.3, 296-7.
Okell, John. 1975. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies38.3, 669-74.
Sedláček, Kamil. 1979. Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländischen Gesellschaft 129, 441-2.
1973b]
“The annual Sino-Tibetan conferences: the first five years,
1968-1972.” Journal of Chinese Linguistics 1.1, 152-62.
1973c]
“Tonogenesis in Southeast Asia.” In Larry M. Hyman, ed.,
Consonant Types and Tone, pp. 71-95. Southern California
Occasional Papers in Linguistics, No. 1. Los Angeles: UCLA.
1973d]
Review of LaRaw Maran, Burmese and Jingpho: a study of tonal
linguistic processes. Journal of Asian Studies 32.4, 741-3.
1973e]
“Notes on Fang-kuei Li's 'Languages and dialects of China.'”
Journal of Chinese Linguistics 1.3, 471-4.
Translated into Chinese by LIANG Min, as “Duì Lǐ Fāngguì Zhōngguo de yǔyán hé fāngyán yì-wén de pīpíng”, in Minzu Yuwen Yanjiu Qingbao Cailiao-ji, No. 6, pp. 136-8 and 98 (1985).
1973f]
Review of John Okell, A Reference Grammar of Colloquial Burmese.
Journal of the American Oriental Society 93.3, 471-4.
1973g]
“The little crabs who walked zigzag.” Fable translated from the
Lahu. In Herbert R. Kohl, ed., Fables, Level II, pp. 22-4.
Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston.
1974a]
“Verb concatenation in Kachin.” Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman
Area (Berkeley) 1.1, 186-207.
1974b]
“The tones of Jinghpaw and Lolo-Burmese: common origin vs.
independent development.” Acta Linguistica
Hafniensia(Copenhagen) 15.2, 153-212.
1974c]
“Sifrut ha-bituy b'Yidish: lashon psixo-ostensivit ba-dibur
ha-amimi.” Hebrew translation by Chana Kaufman (Kronfeld) of l973
MS, “Psycho-ostensive expressions in Yiddish.” Published in
Hasifrut [Literature] (Tel Aviv) No. 18-19, 181-223. Errata
in Hasifrut 21, 168 (1975). The English original was
published with revisions and additions as 1979a.
1975a]
“Rhinoglottophilia: the mysterious connection between nasality and
glottality.” In Charles Ferguson, Larry M. Hyman, and John Ohala,
eds., Nasalfest: Papers from a Symposium on Nasals and
Nasalization, pp. 265-87. Stanford University Language
Universals Project. Stanford, California.
1975b]
“Benedict's Sino-Tibetan: a rejection of Miller's Conspectus
inspection.” Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 2.1,
155-72.
1975c]
“A new Lahu simplex/causative pair: 'study/train.'” Linguistics
of the Tibeto-Burman Area 2.1, 151-4.
1975d]
Review of D. Haigh Roop, An Introduction to the Burmese Writing
System. Journal of the American Oriental Society 95.3,
536-7.
1975e]
Translation (from Russian) of K. B. Keping, “Subject and object
agreement in the Tangut verb.” Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman
Area 2.2, 219-31.
1976a]
“Lahu causative constructions: case hierarchies and the
morphology/syntax cycle in a Tibeto-Burman perspective.” In
Masayoshi Shibatani, ed., The Grammar of Causative
Constructions, pp. 413-42. Academic Press, New York.
1976b]
“Austro-Thai and Sino-Tibetan: an examination of body-part contact
relationships.” In Mantaro J. Hashimoto, ed., Genetic
Relationship, Diffusion, and Typological Similarities of East and
Southeast Asian Languages, pp. 256-89. Japan Society for the
Promotion of Science, Tokyo.
Reviewed by Paul K. Benedict in Computational Analyses of Asian and African Languages (Tokyo), No. 6, 93-4 (1976).
Translated into Chinese by WANG Dewen and HU Tan, as “Aò-Tài yǔxì hé Hàn-Zàng yǔxì yǒu guān shēntǐ bùfen-cí jiēchù guānxi de jiǎnyàn”, in Minzu Yuwen Yanjiu Qingbao Cailiao-ji, No. 6, pp.1-20 (1985).
1977a]
“Malediction and psycho-semantic theory: the case of Yiddish.”
Maledicta (The International Journal of Verbal Aggression)
1.1, 31-9.
Reviewed by Sara Posner in Journal of the North Shore Jewish Community (Salem, Mass.), Vol. 5, No. 10, p. 13 (1981).
1977b]
Introduction to the Written Burmese Rhyming Dictionary.
Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 3.1, iii-x.
1977c]
“Waga Nippon hakken no san-dankai.” In Nihonjin-tte omoshiroi
desu ne, pp. 12-16. Tokyo: Kokusai Kyooiku Shinkookai. (Speech
delivered at First Asahi Shimbun Speech Contest for Foreigners,
Tokyo, June 1961.)
1978a]
“Mpi and Lolo-Burmese microlinguistics.” Monumenta
Serindica, No. 4. 36 pp. Institute for the Study of Languages
and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo.
1978b]
Variational Semantics in Tibeto-Burman: the 'organic' approach
to linguistic comparison. Occasional Papers of the Wolfenden
Society on Tibeto-Burman Linguistics, Volume VI. Publication of
the Institute for the Study of Human Issues (ISHI), Philadelphia.
xviii + 331 pp.
Reviews:
Burling, Robbins. 1980. Language 56.4, 888-91.
Haudricourt, Andre-Georges. 1980. Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris 75.2, 405-6.
Thurgood, Graham. 1982. Indian Linguistics 40.3, 116-7.
1979a]
Blessings, Curses, Hopes, and Fears: Psycho-ostensive
Expressions in Yiddish. Publication of the Institute for the
Study of Human Issues (ISHI), Philadelphia. xx + 140 pp.
Reviews:
Anon. 1980? Kirjath Sepher [Bibliographical Quarterly](Jerusalem), Vol. 55, No. 2, item #2473.
Aman, Reinhold A. 1980. Maledicta IV, 151-2 (August).
Fishman, Joshua A. 1979. Library Journal (June 15).
Keveson-Hertz, Bertha. 1980. “Yiddish in a novel key.” The Jewish Spectator (Santa Monica, CA), 52-3 (Fall).
Lester, Elenore. 1980. The Jewish Week - American Examiner, New York (week of Feb. 10).
Tumin, Israel. 1980. Jewish News, Livingston, NJ (August).
Wexler, Paul. 1990. In Paul Wexler, ed., Studies in Yiddish Linguistics, 175-7. Tübingen: Max Niemayer Verlag.
1979b]
“Problems and progress in Lolo-Burmese: Quo Vadimus?”
Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 4.2, 11-43.
1979c]
“Trickster and the village women: a psychosymbolic discourse
analysis of a Lahu picaresque story.” In Proceedings of the
Fifth Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 593-636.
1979d]
Editor and annotator of Paul K. Benedict, “Four forays into Karen
linguistic history.” Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area
5.1, 1-35.
1979e]
Review of Alfons Weidert, Componential Analysis of Lushai
Phonology. Journal of the American Oriental Society 99.3,
496.
1979f]
Translation (from Japanese) and annotation of Tatsuo Nishida, “The
structure of the Hsi-hsia (Tangut) characters.” Monumenta
Serindica, No. 8. 42 pp. Institute for the Study of the
Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (Tokyo).
1980a]
“Stars, moon, and spirits: bright beings of the night in
Sino-Tibetan.” Gengo Kenkyu (Tokyo) 77, 1-45.
1980b]
Review of Edward R. Hope, The Deep Syntax of Lisu Sentences.
Journal of the American Oriental Society 100.3, 386-7.
Review of N.J. Allen, Sketch of Thulung Grammar. Journal of the American Oriental Society 101.4, 435-436.
1982a]
“Proto-languages and Proto-Sprachgefühl.” Linguistics of
the Tibeto-Burman Area 6.2, 1-64.
1982b]
Second Printing of The Grammar of Lahu [1973a]. lvi + 693
pp. Contains Addenda and Corrigenda, pp. 675-93.
Reviewed by Scott DeLancey, Language 64.1, 213-4 (1988).
1982c]
“Conjugal bliss: an Indo-Aryan word-family pair /yoke/ join in
Tibeto-Burman.” South Asian Review VI.3, 42-50.
Reprinted in Wang Li Memorial Volumes (English Volume), pp. 309-320. The Chinese Language Society of Hong Kong.
Hongkong (1987).
1982d]
Foreword to William Kuo, Teaching Grammar of Thai. Center
for South and Southeast Asia Studies, UC Berkeley.
1983a]
“Linguistic diversity and language contact in Thailand.” In John
McKinnon and Wanat Bhruksasri, eds., Highlanders of
Thailand, pp. 56-86. Oxford University Press, Kuala Lumpur and
New York.
Reviewed by Andrew Turton, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies(London) 48.1, 185-6 (1985).
1983b]
“Translucent insights: a look at Proto-Sino-Tibetan through Gordon
H. Luce's Comparative Word-list.” Bulletin of the School of
Oriental and African Studies (London) 46.3, 462-76.
/Translated into Chinese as 1989g./
1983c]
[with Reinhold A. Aman] “A Yiddish Minnie-legend: Pokayente funem
Shvartsfus-sheyvet.” Maledicta VII, 259-68.
1984a]
[in Chinese] “Some problems in the orthography of Lahu.” Translated
by Zhao Yansun as “Lāhù-yǔ wénzì fāng'àn zhong de
ruògān wèntǐ” in Minzu Yuwen 1984 (3), pp.
27-38. The English original is unpublished.
1984b]
Chinese translation of Sino-Tibetan: a Conspectus [above
1972f], by Le Saiyue and Luo Meizhen. Translation checked by Qu
Aitang and Wu Miaofa. Publication of the Minority Languages
Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Beijing.
1984c]
[in Chinese] “Historical linguistics and research on the
Sino-Tibetan family.” Interview taped and translated by Xu
Tongqiang, published in Yuyanxue Luncong #23, pp. 213-34.
(Also in this issue are Xu's interviews with Y. Malkiel, Chang Kun,
and W. S-Y. Wang), under the general title “Interviews with
American linguists on historical linguistics,” pp. 200-58. (Peking
University, Dept. of Chinese.)
1985a]
“God and the Sino-Tibetan copula, with some good news concerning
selected Tibeto-Burman rhymes.” Journal of Asian and African
Studies (Tokyo Foreign Languages University) #29, 1-81. With an
Appendix by Richard Kunst.
1985b]
[with Graham Thurgood and David Bradley] Editor, Linguistics of
the Sino-Tibetan Area: the State of the Art: Papers Presented to
Paul K. Benedict for his 71st Birthday. Pacific Linguistics,
Series C, No. 87 (Special Number). Canberra. 498 pp. Contains 29
articles.
1985c]
“Paul K. Benedict: an Appreciation.” In Thurgood, Matisoff, and
Bradley, eds., pp. 16-20.
1985d]
“New directions in East and Southeast Asian linguistics.” In
Thurgood, Matisoff, and Bradley, eds., pp. 21-35.
1985e]
“Out on a limb: ARM, HAND, and WING in Sino-Tibetan.” In Thurgood,
Matisoff, and Bradley, eds., pp. 421-50.
1985f]
Foreword to Linda Young, Shan Chrestomathy, p. vii.
1985g]
Chinese translation of 1973e “Notes on Fang-kuei Li's 'Languages
and dialects of China.'” Journal of Chinese Linguistics 1.3,
471-4.
Translated into Chinese by LIANG Min, as “Duì Lǐ Fāngguì Zhōngguo de yǔyán hé fāngyán yì-wén de pīpíng”, in Minzu Yuwen Yanjiu Qingbao Cailiao-ji, No. 6, pp. 136-8 and 98 (1985).
1985h]
Chinese translation of 1976b “Austro-Thai and Sino-Tibetan: an
examination of body-part contact relationships.” In Mantaro J.
Hashimoto, ed., Genetic Relationship, Diffusion, and Typological
Similarities of East and Southeast Asian Languages, pp. 256-89.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo.
Translated into Chinese by WANG Dewen and HU Tan, as “Aò-Tài yǔxì hé Hàn-Zàng yǔxì yǒu guān shēntǐ bùfen-cí jiēchù guānxi de jiǎnyàn”, in Minzu Yuwen Yanjiu Qingbao Cailiao-ji, No. 6, pp. 1-20 (1985).
1986a]
“The languages and dialects of Tibeto-Burman: an alphabetic/genetic
listing, with some prefatory remarks on ethnonymic and glossonymic
complications.” In John McCoy and Timothy Light, eds.,
Contributions to Sino-Tibetan Studies, presented to Nicholas
C. Bodman, pp. 3-75. E.J. Brill, Leiden.
Reviewed by Laurent Sagart, Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale 16.2, p. 289 (1987)
1986b]
“Labiovelar unit phonemes in Lolo-Burmese? A case to chew over:
Lahu bɛ̂ 'chew' < PLB *N-gwyah.”
Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 9.1, 83-88.
1986c]
“Hearts and minds in Southeast Asian languages and English: an
essay in the comparative lexical semantics of psycho-collocations.”
Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale(Paris) 15.1,
5-57.
1987a]
“Conjugal bliss: an Indo-Aryan word-family pair /yoke/ join in
Tibeto-Burman.” In Wang Li Memorial Volumes (English
Volume), pp. 309-20. The Chinese Language Society of Hong Kong.
(Reprint of 1982c)
1987b]
Review of Denise Bernot, Dictionnaire
Birman-français, fascicules 1-8. Bulletin of the
School of Oriental and African Studies (London) 50.1,
191-195.
1987c]
Review of Franklin E. Huffman, Bibliography and Index of
Mainland Southeast Asian Languages and Linguistics. Journal
of Asian Studies 46.2, 451-3.
1987d]
Translation (from Chinese) of Sun Hongkai, “A brief account of my
research work.” Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 10.1,
117-25.
1987e]
“Zàng-Miǎn-yǔ yánjiū duì Hàn-yǔ
shǐ yánjiū de gòngxiàn.” (“The contribution of
Tibeto-Burman research to historical research on the Chinese
language.” Lecture presented at Peking University (April 28, 1983),
simultaneously translated by Mei Tsu-lin. Written translation by
Yè Fēishēng from audiotape and notes, published in
Yǔyán Yánjiū Lùn Cóng (Collected Essays on
Linguistic Research), pp. 61-68. Tianjin: Nankai University
Press.
1988a]
“Universal semantics and allofamic identification -- two
Sino-Tibetan case-studies: STRAIGHT / FLAT / FULL and PROPERTY /
LIVESTOCK / TALENT.” In Akihiro Sato, ed., Languages and History
in East Asia: Festschrift for Tatsuo Nishida on the Occasion of his
60th Birthday, pp. 3-14. Kyoto: Shokado.
1988b]
The Dictionary of Lahu. University of California
Publications in Linguistics, Vol. 111. University of California
Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London. xxv + 1436 pp. 80 plates, 12
frontispiece photos. Includes 8 pp. booklet “Errata and Obiter
Dicta.”
Reviews:
Zgusta, L. 1990. American Reference Books Annual, Entry 1050. Libraries Unlimited, Goldwood, Colorado./
Egerod, Søren. 1991. Language 67.2, pp.373-7.
Lyman, Thomas Amis. 1992. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 142.2:434-6.
Okell, John. 1994. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 57.2.
1988c]
“Proto-Hlai initials and tones: a first approximation.” In Jerold
A. Edmondson and David Solnit, eds., Comparative Kadai:
Linguistic Studies beyond Tai, pp. 289-321. Publications in
Linguistics, #86, Summer Institute of Linguistics and University of
Texas (Arlington).
Reviews:
Mon-Khmer Studies XYZ
Tehan, Thomas M. 1992. Notes on Linguistics 58:40-44.
1988d]
Translation of 1988c into Chinese by OUYANG Jueya, as
"Yuánshǐ Lí-yǔ de
shēngmǔ hé shēngdiào yí chūbù
jìnsì gòunǐ", in
Mínzú Yǔwén Yánjiū
Zīliào-jí 10:1-25.
1989a]
“A new Sino-Tibetan root *d-yu-k BELONG / TRUST / DEPEND /
ACCEPT / TAKE, and a note of caution to megalo-reconstructionists.”
In David Bradley, Eugénie J.A. Henderson, and Martine
Mazaudon, eds., Prosodic Analysis and Asian Linguistics: to
honour R. K. Sprigg, pp. 265-269. Pacific Linguistics C-104,
Canberra.
1989b]
“The bulging monosyllable, or the mora the merrier: echo-vowel
adverbialization in Lahu.” In Jeremy Davidson, ed., South-East
Asian Linguistics: Essays in honour of Eugénie J.A.
Henderson, pp. 163-97. School of Oriental and African Studies.
London.
Reviewed by Marybeth Clark, Journal of the Asian Studies Association of Australia 14.2:268-9
(August, 1990).
1989c]
Review of Jerry Norman, Chinese. Journal of Asian Studies
48.4, 836-8.
1989d]
Review of G.H.Luce, Phases of Pre-Pagán Burma: Languages
and History. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African
Studies (London) 52.3, 599-602.
1989e]
“Tone, intonation, and sound symbolism in Lahu: loading the
syllable canon.” Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 12.2,
147-63. [Republished (1995) in L. Hinton, J. Nichols, and J.
Ohala, eds., pp. 115-29.]
1989f]
“Introduction to the STEDT Monograph Series.” In Randy J. LaPolla
and John B. Lowe, Bibliography of the International Conferences
on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics I-XXI, pp. ix-xi.
Berkeley: Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and
Thesaurus/Centers for South and Southeast Asia Studies.
1989g]
Translation of 1983b by Xú Shìxuán, as "Dòng
wēi zhú yōu: cóng Huádēng H. Lúsī de
Duìyīng Cíhuì kàn
yuánshǐ Hàn-Zàng-yǔ",in
Mínzú Yǔwén Yánjiū
Zīliào-jí 11:77-90.
1990a]
“Zàng-Miǎn yǔzú yǔyán yánjiū yǔ
zhǎnwàng: Mǎtísuǒfù Jiàoshòu
fǎngwèn-jì.” [“Current research and future prospects in
Tibeto-Burman linguistics”] In Minzu Yuwen (Beijing) 1990.1,
1-8. Chinese translation by Jackson Tianshin Sun of an interview
with J. Matisoff, conducted at Berkeley by Dai Qingxia in November,
1989.
1990b]
“On megalocomparison.” Language 66.1, 106-20.
1990c]
“Nihongo to Chibetto-Biruma shogo.” [“Japanese and the
Tibeto-Burman languages”] In SAKIYAMA Osamu, ed., Nihongo no
keisei [The Formation of the Japanese Language], pp.
54-73, followed by Discussion, pp. 74-9. Proceedings of a Symposium
held at the National Museum of Ethnology (Kokuritsu Minzokugaku
Hakubutsukan), Osaka. Tokyo: Sanseido.
1990d]
“Bulging monosyllables: areal tendencies in Southeast Asian
diachrony.” In Kira Hall, et al, eds., Proceedings of the
Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society,
pp. 543-59.
1991a]
“Syntactic parallelism and morphological elaboration in Lahu
religious poetry.” In Sandra Chung and Jorge Hankamer, eds., A
Festschrift for William F. Shipley, pp. 83-103. Santa Cruz,
California: Syntax Research Center.
1991b]
“Areal and universal dimensions of grammatization in Lahu.” In
Elizabeth C. Traugott and Bernd Heine, eds., Approaches to
Grammaticalization, Vol. II, pp. 383-453. Amsterdam:
Benjamins.
1991c]
“Jiburish revisited: tonal splits and heterogenesis in
Burmo-Naxi-Lolo checked syllables.” Acta Orientalia
(Copenhagen) 52:91-114.
1991d]
“Sino-Tibetan linguistics: present state and future prospects.”
Annual Review of Anthropology 20:469-504.
/translated into Chinese as 1993c/
1991e]
“Endangered languages of mainland Southeast Asia.” In R. H. Robins
and E. M. Uhlenbeck, eds, Endangered Languages, pp. 189-228.
Published with the authority of the Permanent International
Committee of Linguists. Oxford and New York: Berg Publishers
Ltd.
Reviews:
Peter T. Daniels (1992) in Language in Society./
Michael Noonan (1993) in Linguistic News Lines (Lincom Europa) 1993.2:44-45.
1991f]
“Lexicography of other Tibeto-Burman languages.” In F. J. Hausmann,
O. Reichmann, H.E. Wiegand, and L. Zgusta, eds., Dictionaries:
an International Encyclopedia of Lexicography, Third Volume,
pp. 2555-60. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter and Co.
1991g]
“Notes on the Fifth International Yi-Burmese Conference and
subsequent peregrinations.” Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman
Area 14.2:179-83.
1991h]
“The mother of all morphemes: augmentatives and diminutives in
areal and universal perspective.” In Martha Ratliff and Eric
Schiller, eds., Papers from the First Annual Meeting of the
Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS), pp. 293-349.
Tempe: Arizona State University, Program for Southeast Asian
Studies.
1992a]
“Southeast Asian languages”. In William Bright and Bernard Comrie,
eds., International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Vol IV, pp.
44-48. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
1992b]
“The Lahu people and their language.” In Judy Lewis, ed.,
Minority Cultures of Laos, pp. 125-247. Southeast Asia
Community Resource Center, Folsom Cordova Unified School District
(Rancho Cordova, CA), in consultation with the California State
Department of Education Bilingual Education Office.
1992c]
“A key etymology.” Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman
Area 15.1:139-43.
1992d]
“Following the marrow: two parallel Sino-Tibetan etymologies.”
Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area15.1:159-77. [Reprinted
as 1994h.]
1992e]
“Preface.” In Laura A. Buszard-Welcher, et al., eds.,
Proceedings of the 18th Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic
Society, Special Session on the Typology of Tone
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1994k]
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“Sino-Tibetan numerals and the play of prefixes.” Bulletin of
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(with Yoshio NISHI and Yasuhiko NAGANO) Ed., New Horizons in
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Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology.
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“Sino-Tibetan palatal suffixes revisited.” In Yoshio NISHI, James
A. MATISOFF, and Yasuhiko NAGANO, eds., New Horizons in
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“Tone, intonation, and sound symbolism in Lahu: loading the
syllable canon.” In L. Hinton, J. Nichols, and J. Ohala, eds.,
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1996a]
Review of Anna Wierzbicka, Cross-Cultural Pragmatics: the
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72.3:624-30.
1996b]
“Contact-induced change, genetic relationship, and scales of
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1996d]
General Editor, Phonological Inventories of Tibeto-Burman
Languages, by Ju Namkung. STEDT Monograph Series #3. Berkeley:
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“Malediction and psycho-semantic theory: the case of Yiddish.” In
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“The cognate noun/verb construction in Lahu.” LTBA 19.1:97-101.
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“Remembering Mary Haas's work on Thai.” In Leanne Hinton, ed.,
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“Primary and secondary laryngeal initials in Tibeto-Burman.” In
Anne O. Yue and Mitsuaki Endo, eds., In Memory of Mantaro J.
Hashimoto [Hashimoto Mantarô kinen chûgoku gogaku
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“Introduction to the Bwe Karen texts.” In Eugénie J.A.
Henderson, Bwe Karen Dictionary, with Texts and English-Karen
word list, edited by Anna J. Allott, Vol. I, pp. xiv-xxiii.
1997c]
Sino-Tibetan Numeral Systems: prefixes, protoforms and
problems. Pacific Linguistics B-114. xi + 136 pp. Canberra:
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National
University.
1997d]
“Watch out for number ONE: Jingpho ŋāi 'I' and
ləŋâi 'one' (with some speculations about
Jingpho number TWO).” In Arthur S. Abramson, ed., Southeast
Asian Linguistic Studies in Honour of Vichin Panupong, pp.
161-169. Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University Press. [Reprint of
1994f]
1997e]
(with Victor Golla and Pamela Munro) “Obituary: Mary R. Haas.”
Language 73.4, pp. 826-837.
1997f]
“Remembering Mary R. Haas's work on Thai.” Anthropological
Linguistics 39.4, pp. 594-602.
1997g]
“Tonal correspondences in the checked syllables of Proto-Yi,
Proto-Burmish, Naxi, and Jingpho: evidence against the
'monogenetic' theory of tonogenesis.” Translation of 1991c
“Jiburish revisited...” [Chinese title:
"Yuánshǐ Yǐ-yǔ,
yuánshǐ Miǎnyǔ, Nàxī-yǔ,
Jǐngpō-yǔ zhōng cùshēngyùn de shēngdiào
duìy-ing zhèngmíng le shēngdiào
qǐyuán de duōyuánxìng." ] In
Yí-Miǎn-yǔ Yǎnjiū [Studies on
Yi-Burmese Languages], pp. 126-170. (In English, with Chinese
abstract pp. 126-7.) Edited by the Editorial Committee of the
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1997h]
Editor's Preface to Fu Maoji, “A descriptive grammar of Lolo”.
Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 20.1: i-ix. A Chinese
translation by Fu Jingqi is in preparation.
1997i]
“In memoriam: Paul K. Benedict (1912-1997).” Linguistics of the
Tibeto-Burman Area 20.2:1-8.
1998a]
“Dàyáng Pumi phonology and adumbrations of
comparative Qiangic.” Mon-Khmer Studies 27:171-213.
1998b]
“Aspects of aspect, with special reference to Lahu and Hebrew.” In
Yasuhiko NAGANO, ed., Time. Language, and Cognition, pp.
171-215. Senri Ethnological Studies, No. 45. Osaka: National Museum
of Ethnology.
1998c]
"Dào Bǎoluó
Bĕnnídíkètè." Minzu Yuwen
1998.2:80. Chinese translation (by Jiang Di) of “In Memoriam: Paul
K. Benedict”, presented at ICSTLL 30, Beijing (Aug. '97).
1998d]
“How dull can you get?” buttock and heel in
Sino-Tibetan." In Pierre Pichard & François Robinne,
eds., Etudes Birmanes en hommage à Denise Bernot, pp.
373-383. Etudes Thématiques 9. Paris: Ecole Française
d'Extrême-Orient. French title (p. 448): “Jusqu'où
pouvez-vous être ennuyeux?: fesse et talon en
sino-tibétain.”
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1999a]
“Tibeto-Burman tonology in an areal context.” In Shigeki KAJI, ed.,
Proceedings of the Symposium 'Cross-Linguistic Studies of
Tonal Phenomena: Tonogenesis, Typology, and Related Topics', pp.
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1999b]
“In defense of Kamarupan.” Linguistics of the
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1999c]
“Méiguó zhùmǐng Zàng-Miǎn
yǔyánxuéjiā Mǎtísuǒfù Jiàoshòu
chéntòng dàoniàn Mǎ Xuéliáng Jiàoshòu”. Translation
by Xu Shixuan of a message of condolence sent on the death of Ma
Xueliang. Zhōngguó Mínzú Yǔyán Xuéhuì
Tōngxùn (Newsletter of the Association of Chinese Minority
Language Studies) 1999.2, p. 4.
2000a]
Blessings, Curses, Hopes, and Fears: Psycho-ostensive
Expressions in Yiddish. Republication of 1979a, with a new
introduction by the author. xxx + 160 pp. Hardcover and paperback.
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Reviewed (2000) by Ülker Vanci-Osam (Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, Cyprus)
in Asian Folklore Studies (Nagoya) 61.2:348-350.
2000b]
“An extrusional approach to *p/w- variation in
Sino-Tibetan.” Language and Linguistics Vol. 1, No.2:
135-86. Taipei: Academia Sinica, Institute of Linguistics.
2000c]
“On the uselessness of glottochronology for the subgrouping of
Tibeto-Burman.” In Colin Renfrew, April McMahon, & Larry Trask,
eds., Time Depth in Historical Linguistics, pp. 333-71.
Cambridge: The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
2000d]
“On 'Sino-Bodic' and other symptoms of neosubgroupitis.”
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
(London) 63.3:356-69.
2000e]
“Three Tibeto-Burman/Sino-Tibetan word families: set (of the sun);
pheasant/peacock; scatter/pour.” In Marlys Macken, ed.,
Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Conference of the Southeast Asia
Linguistics Society (SEALS),, pp. 215-32. Tempe, AZ: Arizona
State University, Program for Southeast Asian Studies.
2001a]
"Yòng xiēzi qiào kāi wèntí" : Using a
wedge to pry open a problem." Yǔyán Yánjiū (Wuhan)
2001.1:106-127.
2001b]
“The interest of Zhangzhung for comparative Tibeto-Burman.” In
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2001c]
“Yuánshǐ Hàn-Zàng-yǔ / Yuánshǐ
Zàng-Mǐan-yǔ gòunǐ de xiànzhuàng.”
Chinese translation by K. K. Luke (Lu Jingguang) and Zhang
Zhenjiang, of “The present state of PST/PTB reconstruction: can we
even write a fable in Proto-Lolo-Burmese?” Problems in
Linguistics [Yǔyánxué Wèntǐ
Jíkān] Vol. I, No. 1, pp. 41-58. Published jointly by the
Heilongjiang University and Hong Kong University Departments of
Linguistics. Jilin: People's Publishing Co. (Later poublished in
English: see 2002c.)
2001d]
Review of Shobhana L. Chelliah, A Grammar of Meithei.
Anthropological Linguistics 43.2 :246-51.
2001e]
“Genetic vs. contact relationship: prosodic diffusibility in
South-East Asian languages.” In Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and R.M.W.
Dixon, eds., Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance: problems
in comparative linguistics, pp. 291-327. Oxford University
Press.
2002a]
Zài lùn Yí-Miǎn yǔzhī de
shēngdiào yǎnbiàn: gǔ
bìyīnjiécí de shēngdiào fēnhuà.
Chinese translation of The Loloish Tonal Split Revisited
(1972a), by Lin Ying-chin, with a new introduction by the author.
Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei.
2002b]
“Wedge issues.” Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area
25.1:137-64.
2002c]
“The present state of PST?PTB reconstruction: can we even write a
fable in Proto-Lolo-Burmese?” Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman
Area 25.2: 225-242.. (Appeared previously in Chinese
translation; see 2001c.)
2003a]
“Lahu.” In Graham Thurgood and Randy LaPolla, eds., The
Sino-Tibetan Languages, Chapter XIII, pp. 208-21. London and
new York: Routledge.
2003b]
“Southeast Asian languages”. In William Frawley and Bernard Comrie,
eds., International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2nd
Edition, Vol. IV, pp. 126-130. New York and Oxford: Oxford
University Press. Revised version of 1992a.
2003c]
“Aslian: Mon-Khmer of the Malay peninsula.” Mon-Khmer
Studies (Bangkok) 33:1-57.
2003d]
Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman: system and philosophy of
Sino-Tibetan reconstruction. Berkeley and Los Angeles:
University of California Press. xviii + 750 pp.
2003e]
“Historical development of tone: appreciating the diversity of
prosodic systems, and of linguists' approaches to them.” In Shigeki
KAJI, ed., Proceedings of the Symposium Cross-linguistic
Studies of Tonal Phenomena, pp. 3-11. Tokyo: University of Foreign
Studies, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and
Africa.
2004a]
“Areal semantics: is there such a thing?” To appear in Anju Saxena,
ed., Himalayan Languages, Past and Present., pp. 347-393.
The Hague: Mouton.
[to appear]
Language Variation: Papers on variation and change in the
Sinosphbere and in the Indosphere in honour of James A. Matisoff.
David Bradley, et al, eds. To appear (Canberra) as a
Pacific Linguistics Monograph.
1. [submitted Sept. 1997]
“Tibeto-Burman languages and linguistics”. MS: text, 29 pp;
references, 17 pp; 16 figures. To appear in the next edition of
Encyclopedia Britannica. Submitted by invitation.
2. [submitted 2001]
“On the linguistic position of Bai within Tibeto-Burman.” To appear
first in Chinese translation by Fu Jingqi.
3. [submitted 2003]
“The dinguist's dilemma: deltacism of laterals in Sino-Tibetan and
elsewhere.” To appear in Chinese translation in Journal of Chinese
Phonology, Taipei.
4. [submitted 2004]
“Yiddish blessings and curses.” To appearr in the YIVO
Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe.
5. [submitted 2004]
"Addenda and errata (#1) to the Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman:
system and philosophy of Sino-Tibetan reconstruction. To appear
in Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, Vol. 27.1.
1. [to be submitted 2004]
English-Lahu Dictionary. With the assistance of J.B. Lowe,
Zev Handel, R.S.Cook, David Mortensen. A computerized reversal of
The Dictionary of Lahu (1988b) To be submitted to U.C.
Press.
2. [to be submitted 2004]
"The place of Xixia (Tangut) in the Qiangic subgroup of
Tibeto-Burman."
3. [in preparation]
Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia. To be published in the Cambridge Language Surveys series, by Cambridge University Press.
(1977)
Lahu Introduction to The Dictionary of Lahu.
(1979)
[with Inga-Lill Hansson] Akha - Lahu - Written Burmese cognates: the “Black Box.” 91 pp. MS. Presented as “Cognate grading and other desiderata for Lolo-Burmese studies” at the Burmese-Yipho Workshop, 23rd International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics, University of Texas (Arlington), Oct. 3, 1990.
(1988)
“Buffalo/Shofar” and “Tircul”: two squibs.
[1988].
Ten Lectures on Sino-Tibetan Comparative Linguistics. In Chinese. Revised and expanded version of lectures presented at Peking University, May 1984. With the assistance of Ye Feisheng, Xu Tongqiang, Chan Songcen, Wang Zhiyi, and Li Ping.
/One of these lectures has reportedly been published in Yuyanxue Luncong (1993?)/
(1989)
“Toward a Eurasian bestiary: the otter and the jackal.” Paper presented at 22nd International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics, University of Hawaii. 25 pp. MS.
(1994)
“Notes on Rongmei (Kabui)”.
Handbook of Lolo-Burmese Historical Phonology.
Lahu Chrestomathy.
Lahu Proverbs.
Review of George van Driem, Languages of the Himalayas. Anthropological Linguistics.
Review of Anthony Walker, Merit and the Millennium. Journal of the American Oriental Society..
Review of Robbins Burling, The Language of the Modhupur Mandi (Garo). Vol. I: Grammar.
Prof. James A. Matisoff
University of California
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